As AlanB said, the Sunset almost always runs late, especially by the time it gets east of New Orleans. With Sunset Limited service east of New Orleans off line until next spring at the earliest, if the Sunset Limited gets into NOL too late EB, Amtrak almost always cuts the train there and turns it into a bus all the way to Orlando. I try to encourage all travelers to avoid the Sunset Limited east of NOL, especially on long trips that involve multiple connections and to avoid the relativley high chance that you'll get a bus ride across the Florida Panhandle. Just a note, the Sunset Limited got terminated in NOL EB 46% of its regularly scheduled trips before Katrina killed totally killed it. I know this happened for six consecutive weeks on Wednesday mornings earlier this year. I worked ready crew a bunch of times those days and we had to aid the passengers from the train to the bus. It was always sad to tell everyone that this was for their own good as by the time they got to their destination, they'd only be a few hours late rather than 12 hours late if they stayed on the train. Most coach passengers wanted off and were happy to be on a bus, but this never occured with the sleeping car passengers for obvious reasons as they got a bottle of water, cold sandwich and an apple for their entitled en-route lunch.